Converging threads of AS IF WE DIDN’T KNOW FOR PETE’S SAKE-
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Today, in a lawsuit, (the Jan. 6 committee) told a judge that the committee “has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
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In the plea deal, James said that “Rhodes instructed James &..conspirators to be prepared, if called upon, to report to the White House grounds to secure the perimeter & use lethal force if necessary against anyone who tried to remove President Trump.”
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On July 27, 2016, even before the Republican National Committee changed the party’s platform to weaken the U.S. stance in favor of Ukraine in its struggle to fight off Russia’s 2014 invasion, U.S. News & World Report senior politics writer David Catanese noted that senior security officials were deeply concerned about then-candidate Trump’s ties to Russia.
July 27 was the day Trump referred at a news conference to his opponent and then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s emails that were not turned over for public disclosure from her private server and said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” (We know now that Russian hackers did, in fact, begin to target her accounts on or around that day.)
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The above three blocks are from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American, a daily newsletter that is vital to my sanity.
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*The only way to not be dependent on fossil fuels and the asshole rulers that have them is to not be dependent on fossil fuels.“
From Eschaton
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I remember – and us oldsters talk about this occasionally around the campfires in front of the caves in which we live – instructions in grade school, on what to do in case of a nuclear attack, and thinking -perhaps out loud- that putting my head between my knees wasn’t a particularly good defense against annihilation. Now I’m kind of siding with the teachers on this one. That bottle of iodine tablets I have stuck away is probably just as useful, but I am not completely helpless I have my tablets. (Oh yeah, remember iodized salt? Totally to prevent goiter.)
There’s so much more falling into place. I guess? I’m glad to have lived this long? to see this all spill out into public view? but yeah, the dirty fucking hippies were right. Again.
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